- Sarah Ewall-Wice and William Vaillancourt @ The Daily Beast: Nepo Sister Barely Clinches Runoff Despite Trump Backing
Trump went all in for the sister of the late Sen. Lindsey Graham despite her campaign trail flubs.
- Malcolm Ferguson @ The New Republic: Darline Graham Says You Should Work Until You Collapse and Die
Graham mocked universal health care in the weirdest way possible after winning her primary election.
- Kiera Butler @ Mother Jones: Memes and Machine Guns: How Brandon Herrera Built a Path to Congress
His financial supporters live everywhere—except in his Texas district.
- Steve Benen @ The Maddow Blog: Calls for Kennedy’s ouster grow as two unvaccinated people die of measles in Pennsylvania
“RFK Jr.’s lies and conspiracy theories are making Marylanders sick,” Sen. Angela Alsobrooks said, adding that Kennedy “must resign or be fired.”
- Media Matters: Laura Loomer: “Some people call it racism. I call it pattern recognition.”
Loomer: “And guess what? Pattern recognition and profiling keeps you safe.”
- Hunter Walker @ Talking Points Memo: He Accidentally Won a Michigan House Primary. He Also Attended the Jan 6 Protest
Tom Smith sort of stumbled into the Republican nomination in his Michigan House district. But based on dozens of posts he made on social media, Smith’s path to the Jan. 6, 2021 protests against President Donald Trump’s election loss was far more deliberate.